black incarceration

  1. Clyde C Coger Jr

    Black People Politics : Black Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation

    In the Spirit of the Obama Administration, Black Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation At the end of 2014, the African American male imprisonment rate had dropped to a level not seen since early 1993. The change for African American women is even more marked, with the 2014...
  2. Clyde C Coger Jr

    Law Forum : America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality

    In the Spirit of Sankofa, America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality "Imprisonment makes the disadvantaged literally invisible,” writes Harvard sociologist Bruce Western in his book, "Punishment and Inequality in America." Western was among the first...
  3. Clyde C Coger Jr

    Black People Politics : Ta-Nehisi Coates: “For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm”

    In the Spirit of Justice or Else, Ta-Nehisi Coates: “For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm” On Monday night, the Atlantic published Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration." The article, the longest the magazine has run in a decade, limns...
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